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Mali striker Cheick Diabate's sixth goal of the season helped Bordeaux beat Lille 1-0 on Sunday to move provisionally level on points with third-place Lyon in the French league.

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Lens on Monday had their promotion to Ligue 1 confirmed after successfully appealing a ban to the top flight on financial grounds. The club were initially barred from taking their place in the French top flight after failing to produce the prerequisite 10 million euro guarantee.

Russians Andrey Rublev and Darya Kasatkina won the the junior titles at the French Open on Saturday. Kasatkina rallied past top-seeded Ivana Jorovic of Serbia 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3 in the girls' final, while the fourth-seeded Rublev beat Jaume Antoni Munar Clar of Spain 6-2, 7-5 in the boys' final.

Maria Sharapova won her second French Open title in three years, overcoming some shaky serving Saturday to beat fourth-seeded Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4 in the final.

Andrea Petkovic kept her remarkable run at the French Open on track on Wednesday as she crushed Italian tenth seed Sara Errani to set up a last four clash against Simona Halep.

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Timea Babos of Hungary and Eric Butorac of United States beat Alize Cornet and Jonathan Eysseric of France 6-4, 6-3 in the mixed doubles quarterfinals at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Marina Erakovic of New Zealand and Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain, seeded 16th, beat Julie Coin and Pauline Parmentier of France 6-2, 6-3 in the women's doubles third round at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Seventh seed Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua of Australia over came twelfth seed Kristina Mladenovic of France and Flavia Pennetta of Italy 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the women's doubles third round at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Fourth seed Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia and Alexandra Panova of Russia 6-3, 6-1 in the women's doubles third round at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Marin Draganja of Croatia and Florin Mergea of Romania beat third seed Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (5) in the men's doubles quarterfinals at the French Open on Monday.

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Twelfth seed Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez of Spain upset top seed Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan of United States 6-4, 6-2 in the men's doubles quarterfinals at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Germany's Andrea Petkovic, seeded 28, beat Kiki Bertens of The Netherlands 1-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the women's singles fourth round at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Tenth seed Sara Errani of Italy upset sixth seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the women's singles fourth round at the French Open on Monday

P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} Fourth seed Simona Halep of Romania upset fifteenth seed Sloane Stephens of United States 6-4, 6-3 in the women's singles fourth round at the French Open on Monday